22 March 2016

Comment: Bahasa Indonesia as the Common ASEAN Language?

It is good to know that we are in the
21st century, internet age, and I certainly not consent to use
English as the Asean common language,neither to agree on with Bahasa
Indonesia or Melayu, which is my national language.

It is time for us to do away the
imperialism mentality. We should use Esperanto as the common language
in Asean with the following reasons:

1. Esperanto is recommended by UNESCO,
download the resolutions in its official website. Esperanto is also
supported by United Nations World Tourism Organisations UNWTO.

2. Esperanto is fair to all people in
Asean. It is unwise to use any of the languages from the ASEAN
region, it would not be fair to other people. Just as using English
is unfair too.

3. Esperanto saves cost of learning.
Learning Esperanto needs less than 200 hours but no other Asean
languages will take that low economy of language learning.

4. There are many Esperanto learning
resources online and there are many Esperanto speakers in Asean
countries too, here is the Indonesia Esperanto Association
http://www.esperanto.or.id You can search more in Esperanto groups in
Facebook or search Malaysia Esperanto Studies Group for the beneifts
of using Esperanto.

5. Esperanto is the best business
language as the research was done by French Commerce Association 9
decades ago but the French government shot down the idea but they
never think that English would be taken over its position in the
world. We should not repeat that mistake for the battling of language
in the region.

6. There are more than 175 countries in
the world where there are Esperanto speakers and China Radio
International broadcasting Esperanto programme daily.

7. If the representative in the
higher level agree to use Esperanto, within a year, we are able to
communicate among the people in ASEAN without difficulties. The text
books are available almost in all national languages in ASEAN and
Cambodia and some of the Asean countries are already in Esperanto
tourism as respect the 1989 Manila UNWTO Declaration. More than 75%
of the people in the world do not speak a word of English.

8. Google
has the Esperanto translator and other business ventures as well
realised that Esperanto speakers are on the increased, they also
include Esperanto pages. Of late, the Duolingo started the Esperanto
course for English speakers, it attracted more than 320k learners to
this date. When the Esperanto for Spanish is out of incubator, more
other languages will be translated.Another world giant website
Wikipedia also has the Esperanto section.

9. Using Esperanto as Asean common language will save cost of foreign
language learning, less than 200 hours compare to English, which
needs 3200 hours. The European Council listed Esperanto as one of
the language, the Esperanto KER examination is held yearly
worldwide.

This
list can go on but I have to halt here. Welcome to do more research
on Esperanto if you do not know more about it.

It is regretted that the comment was not approved by the admin of the page. But, in this internet age, it is not only one place you can voice your opinion. Look, here I am copying all my comment from the original post here. If the admin can be more liberal and we can have better communication, ASEAN will be the strongest region in the world.

But we have too many people in ASEAN were poisoned by the colonial language, English, or they are too short sighted in life.

My second attempt got the notice of the admin, I still maintained my previous paragraph as to show the fairness of my comment.